How a new book honors Emmett Till
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar.This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a…
Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter.Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar.This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a…
Former Hollyoaks star Emmett J Scanlan appeared on Wednesday's Lorraine to talk about gripping Netflix show Fool Me Once based on Harlan Coben's best-selling book…
Richard Hunt, a prolific sculptor who was influenced by the civil rights movement and whose public art can be seen across the United States, has…
US President Joe Biden’s establishment of a national monument honouring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, marks the fulfilment of a promise Till’s relatives…
Washington, DC – US President Joe Biden has established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanised the civil rights…
The monument will protect places that are central to the story of Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers…
The brutality of Till’s 1955 lynching, on display at his open-casket funeral, galvanised the US civil rights movement. The white woman who accused Black teenager…
After months of claiming she was fearful for her safety, actress Ambyr Childers has been granted a temporary restraining order against her ex-husband, Randall Emmett.…
The unanimous vote awarded Till and his mother, both civil rights icons, the Congressional Gold Medal. The United States House of Representatives has unanimously passed…